Ice-tool



PATENT OLIVER P. JAQUEs, or WARSAW, INDIANA.

ICE-Tool..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 425,325, dated April 8, 1890.

` Application filed August 3 18891 Serial No. 319,703. (No model.)

To all 1071.071?, it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, OLIVER P. JAQUES, of

VarsaW, in the coun ty of Koseiusko and State' of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Ice-Tool for Cutting Between the Cakes of Ice in the Ice-House; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved ice-tool, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken on the section line drawn through Fig. l.

The nature of my invention consists of an ice-tool, made as herein described and shown, that may be worked between the cakes of ice in the ice-house for the purpose of separating" them with the least possible Waste of ice and accumulation of slush, cutting a smooth and regular channel reaching to the remotest depths of square corners and leaving the cakes of ice in a more perfectly rectangular form than by any other means heretofore used. The tool is constructed from an iron ora steel plate one-fourth of an inch in thickness, about four (et) inches in width, and in length sufficient to form three or more teeth about three inches long, as shown, and asha-nk of convenient length and size to be fitted into a Wooden handle. lf an iron plate is used, the teeth are pointed with steel. The teeth are formed by cutting out openings in the plate, as shown at (l and c, and swaged down so as to be about ive-eighths of an inch in thickness at the point, which is brought to a sharp chisel-shaped edge. In the formation of the openings, as shown at d and c, the parts from l to 2 and from 3 to 4 are brought to a centrai tapering cutting-edge, so that in use the tool is readily relieved from accumulation of slush ice.

The points or cutting portions of the teeth B and C are :made to project or extend a trilie beyond the line of the tooth A, so that when the tool is used at any convenient angle the teeth B and C do the principal portion of the cutting, and when used in a vertical position the tooth A, then acting as a chisel, cuts out the square corners to the very bottom of the cakes of ice.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

' l. The ice-tool having the series of teeth formed with broad base or surface portions having Wide chisel-edge-shaped points and with an upper forward central tapering eutting-edge, substantially as set forth.

2. The ice-tool having the series of teeth of approximately plow-shovel shape in side elevation, formed With broad base or surface portions, having wide chisel-edge-shaped points and with upper forward central tapering cuttingedge, the points of each succeeding tooth being below the preceding tooth, all in one piece, substantially as set forth.

OLIVER P. JAQUES. Witnesses:

C. M. ALWAED, En. G. JACQUES. 

